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[–] rtxn 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It's very often true, though. Windows has pretty graphics, but doing anything technical that doesn't work out of the box is fucking obscure.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean, the registry is a perfect piece of software, crystal clear on how or why it works the way it does !

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I agree!

Who would want to enable cycling through application windows on the taskbar via graphical settings in KDE Plasma, when you can just press Win+R, enter regedit.exe, get administrator privilages, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and add a new 32-bit DWORD named LastActiveClick with the value of 1 in Windows.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It can't be that easy.

[–] deafboy 3 points 8 months ago

Elementary users are probably looking away now, all embarased... mainly because they don't have a minimize button, to hide the shame. Not without screwing around with dconf, that is :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not even too technical stuff. Settings which a slightly advanced user might need or want to change are freaking spread out across 3 different applications. Good luck finding it through the their amazing search.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Me: Ask for default browser setting Windows: Excuse me, did you mean to search for Bagels Near Me?